Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

which Anderson's will sell on Jan. 20. One of these rarities is a first edition of "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of ...

Considered the first published Black poet, Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) learned to read and write from the Wheatleys, a prominent family in Boston who purchased her as a slave when she was a ...

The frontispiece and title page of “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral“ by Phillis Wheatley. PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY SHIPS & MUSEUM This year marks the 250th anniversary of ...

A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown ...

In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about eleven years old ... apparently led to a friendship with Occum, who was also a poet, and who later published an Indian hymnal. On February 11, 1774 ...

This week, we’re celebrating Phyllis Wheatley, who was the first well-known black female poet in the western world ... She was taken aboard the slave ship Phillis, which docked in the British ...